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You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

Alexander Payne

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Alexander Payne
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 10
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
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Nebraska
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But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about.
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This is how good movies get made and always have: from the gut instinct of the financiers, not just by committee and research.
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In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.
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Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.
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I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.
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I want all of my films to belong to me.
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I love comedies. I take comedy very seriously as a form. It's a serious form, involving a certain way of looking at life, specifically the painful aspects of life. I get asked, How can you have such failures in your films? Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.
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I think about what movie I would like to see. I don't think of them as a correction or palliative. I certainly am irritated by anything that's shot in the Midwest and filled with these noble people. Oh, they're so good, and they're so honest... I'm not interested in that. I just think of what's right for a movie.
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I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.
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I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.
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I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.
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A lot of documentaries have been made very quickly, but I think they're like frogs in an ecosystem: They're harbingers. Film is always two or three years behind, because it takes so long to write a script, get financing, and get it made. It just takes a while. But I think it's coming. It has to.
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Forgiving yourself may be for many people, at least for myself, extremely difficult. And then in a larger context, I will say that I'm constantly astonished by those who pray daily, Forgive me my sins as I forgive those who sin against me, and beat very loudly the war drum.
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When you're a houseguest and you leave, it's nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the planet, it's nice to have made a positive contribution.
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It seems that our politicians see the world in black and white, so why not our artists? Did Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' have to be in black and white? No. But is it fantastic that it was? To see New York like that? Yes!
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I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.
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Somewhat dramatic things happen, and you don't even always notice them — that's what life is.
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The worst thing for people to say about your movies is, Yeah, it was pretty good, but it was too damn long..
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The best cinema is about ethics.
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That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further.
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